How Art Can Change Your Life

Art communicates with us in ways that words alone cannot. It can be enlightening, challenging, informative, arresting, amusing and therapeautic. The ideas in this book will show you how art can lift your mood, calm your mind and ease stress and anxieties.

Artists have been conveying feelings, ideas and stories for thousands of years. How Art Can Change Your Life will help you to ‘read’ their messages, so you can enrich your own emotional life through art.

More than seventy artists and their artworks are considered, from Frida Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse embracing happiness, from Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin finding hope. By understanding an artist’s intentions and examining aspects of their work, you can learn to deal better with your emotions, adopt new viewpoints and approach the world more positively. You will find that art truly can change your life.

With 88 illustrations

149,00kr.